AI bot gives customer 80% discount, supplier can't deliver (old.reddit.com)

Misleading title. AI chatbot hallucinated discount codes that weren't accepted but scammy customer decided to push on it.

Sounds like the bot didn't give the customer the discount, as it wasn't authorised to approve discounts?

Yeah, this should be properly communicated.

This is faked. There are no details in the post about how the bot was set up. Clearly there are no e-commerce systems that have MCP tooling that allow arbitrary 80pct discounts without explicit permission from the owner.

Any advice or requests for more details are deleted by the moderator.

This is a "set up", designed by the owners of the subreddit to make people who don't know how AI and tooling work afraid of AI. Clearly the author is colluding with the moderators to prevent difficult questions or concerns.